Meals on Wheels for old people / by Amelia I. Harris.

  • Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Social Survey Division
Date:
[1961]
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Credit: Meals on Wheels for old people / by Amelia I. Harris. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    22% of W.V.S. schemes and 19% of Red Cross schemes would like a van specially allocated for meals-on-wheels work. 5 of the 105 schemes wanting vans are already making arrangements to get them, or are awaiting delivery. It was pointed out that where vans were used jointly for meals-on-wheels and other purposes, the van was not always available at the right time for delivery. The 2 miscellaneous answers cover the garaging of vehicles. At present the garages are some miles from the meal centre, and in one case negotiations are already in hand to have the vans garaged at more convenient sites. Time of delivery of first meal One scheme starts delivering at 10 o'clock in the morning. Two other schemes start at 10.15 a.m., lat 10.455 a.m. and Tat 10.45 a.m. The time thers. meal is delivered by various organisations is shown in Table 46. TA Bruen. =e Time schemes of main organisations deliver first meal i i , ; i i OCr gan. i Sea nue lo) nus All Time first meal i Red [iasty ero Organi delivered 0.P.W.C. L.A. sations No. % | Now. & | Before a0 ray. | $) LP £320 VS lace PEs | 11.30 de» 12.59..a-m. 172 50 | 20 38 9 4~-80>|-217>-846 | 12 noon - 12.29 p.m. 88 25 | 18 (35) 3 520] 14 °nenlen Se Ria Galeseiias | 12.30 and later pre 2 | 5 10 - - - - - - | 11 2 | i | | 5 100 | 450* 100 All deliveries | 346 100 | 52 100 | ee a : i i | i Sree ee ererscreeetereeneserierennsene * Excludes 3 not answered (2 W.V.S., 1 Red Cross) Of the 11 schemes starting 12.30 or later, only one served the first meal alter I p.m.. 0.2. W.Csand..joint W.V.S./0.P.W.C. schemes have a higher pro- portion of schemes starting to serve meals between 12 noon and 1 p.m. than the other organisations. Time recipients receive meals The data just presented do not give us a distribution of the number of people getting meals at various times, and recipients were asked at what time the meal is normally delivered. 75 (9%) recipients said the time varied. Sometimes the round was started at different points each delivery day to ensure a fair share of the hottest meals. This happens more often in London than in any other area. The times recipients receive meals are given in Table 47. Recipients who receive meals at varying times are excluded from this table. eh a
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